{"id":12468,"date":"2025-07-01T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waterlat.org\/?page_id=12468"},"modified":"2025-07-01T17:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T17:21:02","slug":"organization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/short-video-competition\/2025-short-video-competition\/organization\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Organization<\/h2>\n<p>The Competition is organized by a team composed by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/publications\/editorial-comission\/\">WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network\u2019s Editorial Commission<\/a>, and invited specialists, in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.ufpe.br\/cea\/curadoria-de-interseccionalidades-inter-e-transdisciplinares\/\">Curatorship of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Intersectionalities, Center for Advanced Studies, Federal University of Pernambuco<\/a>, Recife, Brazil.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Evaluation Commission<\/h2>\n<h3>WATERLAT-GOBACIT members<\/h3>\n<p><b>Carolina Blanco Moreno<\/b>, University of the Valley (UNIVALLE), Cali, Colombia<\/p>\n<p><b>Karina Kloster<\/b>, Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), Mexico City, Mexico<\/p>\n<p><b>Antonio Rodriguez Sanchez<\/b>, Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ), Zacatecas, Mexico<\/p>\n<p><b>Ariel Ocantos<\/b>, National University of Rosario (UNR), Santa Fe, Argentina<\/p>\n<h3>Invited Evaluation Specialists<\/h3>\n<p><b>Alana Sim\u00f5es Orozco<\/b>, Departament of Socio-cultural Studies, ITESO, the Jesuit University of Guadalajara, and CINEMATR\u00d3PODOS, Jalisco, Mexico<\/p>\n<p><b>Maricruz Romero Ugalde<\/b>, Founder and General Coordinator of the Interpretative Audiovisual Ethnography Laboratory (ETNOAI) Department of Social Studies, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Guanajuato, Campus Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico<\/p>\n<h2>Advisory to the Competition Team<\/h2>\n<p><b>Maria de Jesus de Britto Leite<\/b>, Director, Center for Advanced Studies (CEA) Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil.<\/p>\n<p><b>Susana Herrera Lima<\/b>, ITESO, The Jesuit University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hermelinda Ferreira<\/b>, DESDEMO Project, WATERLAT-GOBACIT member, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Competition rules<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Participants<\/h3>\n<p>Participation is open to professionals and beginners, regardless of age, country or language.<\/p>\n<h3>2. Language<\/h3>\n<p>The official languages of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network are English, Portuguese, and Spanish. In cases where the original version of the video is in a different language, <strong>we require subtitles<\/strong> in any of three official languages of the Network.<\/p>\n<h3>3. Duration<\/h3>\n<p>The videos will have a <b><i>maximum length of 15 minutes.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<h3>4. Themes<\/h3>\n<p>The competition covers <strong>four themes<\/strong>. It is possible to address more than one theme in a video, but <strong>one of the four themes must receive priority<\/strong>.<i>Check also carefully <strong> the Criteria in point 6 below<\/strong><\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"themes\">\n<h5>Theme 1<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Inequalities, injustices and violences related to the control of water sources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>Theme 2<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Global warming negationism, desertification processes and their consequences for the hydrosphere and life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Theme 3<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Water cultures grounded on the principles of solidarity, equality, inclusion, and defending the common<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>Theme 4<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Social struggles over water politics and management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>5. Categories<\/h3>\n<p>The videos can be presented in the following categories:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lista\">\n<li>Animation<\/li>\n<li>Documentary<\/li>\n<li>Interview<\/li>\n<li>Fiction<\/li>\n<li>Open category (it can be a mix of categories, and can also include educational materials, journalistic research, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>6. Criteria<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Contribution to the Network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/history\/objectives\/\">Objectives<\/a> and<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/history\/research-priorities\/\">Research Priorities<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Consistency with the theme chosen (point4).<\/li>\n<li>Pertinence to the category chosen (point 5).<\/li>\n<li>Visual aesthetics.<\/li>\n<li>Quality and originality (of approach and narrative perspective).<\/li>\n<li>Conceptual consistency and clarity of the message.<\/li>\n<li>Focus and reach of the message (specification of the public or publics addressed, etc.).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>7. Format<\/h3>\n<p>The videos must be submitted in <strong>mp4<\/strong> format.<\/p>\n<h3>8. Presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Those interested in participating in the Competition must send an e-mail to the <a href=\"mailto:waterlat@newcastle.ac.uk\">WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network\u2019s Secretariat<\/a>,<br \/>\nwith the following information:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"lista\">\n<li>Complete name of the author\/s of the video.<\/li>\n<li>Complete name of the contact person.<\/li>\n<li>Complete contact details of the contact person (full address, city, country, telephone, e-mail).<\/li>\n<li>Title, category, and date of production of the video.<\/li>\n<li>Indicate if the video has been submitted for evaluation to other competitions.<\/li>\n<li>Indicate if the video has been awarded a prize in other competitions.<\/li>\n<li>Important: videos produced before 31 December 2024 or videos that have already been awarded a prize at the time of submission cannot participate in the main competition but will be included in a competition for an Honour Mention.<\/li>\n<li>Short abstract of the topic covered by the video, and data sheet including language, duration, format, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Declaration of authorship. By submitting their video to the competition, the author\/s automatically declare to be authors of the work and that it is not subject to any third-party property rights. The WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network reserves the right to exclude from the competition those videos that do not comply with this requirement, at any moment, including after the final decision if any evidence emerges of anomalies with regard to the work\u2019s property rights. The author\/s are fully responsible for any problems caused by violations to authors\u2019 rights in their videos.<\/li>\n<li>After receiving this document, we will inform the authors how to transfer the video file online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>9. Deadline<\/h3>\n<p>The reception of videos for the Competition closed <strong>on 31 January 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>10. Rights of dissemination<\/h3>\n<p>The WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network reserves the right to use the videos presented to the Competition in its activities of education, research, public debate, and any other relevant activities. All Network activities are non-profit. This does not infringe the rights of the authors to the acknowledgement of their authorship. The WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network uses the Creative Commons \u2013 Attribution license and publishes its videos in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Waterlat\/featured\">Youtube channel<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Network will be also able to use the videos for promotion purposes exclusively connected with this Competition.<\/p>\n<h3>11. Evaluation, awards and acknowledgements<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"lista\">\n<li>The Evaluation Commission will produce a selection of all videos that have complied with the evaluation criteria mentioned in points 1-8 and will produce a ranked list according to the merits of each work.<\/li>\n<li>The ranked list will have two categories: a) videos that participate in the main competition and b) videos that compete for the Special Honour Mention (see \u201cPresentation\u201d, point 8 above).<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the competition winner, all videos achieving 80 percent of the total mark given by the Evaluation Commission will receive an Honour Mention. All these videos will be also published in the <a href=\" https:\/\/zenodo.org\/communities\/waterlat-gobacit\/\">WATERLAT-GOBACIT Community at the European Union\u2019s Zenodo Repository<\/a>, which provides a Digital Object Identification (DOI) number and enhanced international dissemination.<\/li>\n<li>All pre-selected videos will be awarded with dissemination through different platforms, including permanent presence in a dedicated Playlist of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Waterlat\/featured\">Youtube Channel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>All participants whose videos pass the evaluation process will receive an official certificate.<\/li>\n<li>The videos will have additional dissemination through the activities of the Network\u2019s member institutions, in educational and other activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more details or to ask for clarification please send an e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:waterlat@newcastle.ac.uk\">WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network\u2019s Secretariat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/short-video-competition\/2025-short-video-competition\/\">Return to the 2025 Short-video Competition main page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Organization The Competition is organized by a team composed by members of the WATERLAT-GOBACIT Network\u2019s Editorial Commission, and invited specialists, in collaboration with the Curatorship of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Intersectionalities, Center for Advanced Studies, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil. Evaluation Commission WATERLAT-GOBACIT members Carolina Blanco Moreno, University of the Valley (UNIVALLE), Cali, Colombia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":12223,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12468","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12468\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roxpublicidade.com.br\/waterlat\/01\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}